Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 16:47:50 Jonathan Callen wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> The problem was that Gentoo's early amd64 implementation predated this > >> standardization, and we had chosen the other way. While we've defaulted > >> to lib64 for 64-bit libs for years, it has never been con

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Jonathan Callen
Mike Frysinger wrote: > if you read FHS you'll see that both implementations are allowed. Gentoo > isnt > violating anything here. wrt LSB, who knows. there are a ton of things we > dont follow with LSB. Actually, at first, FHS says that any /lib would be allowed, but it then goes into speci

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 12:25:15 Duncan wrote: > Thomas Sachau posted on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:29:25 +0200 as excerpted: > > Michael Haubenwallner schrieb: > >> Isn't the intention of multilib to have a new (64bit) system be > >> compatible with the corresponding old (32bit) system? > >> > >> Plea

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Duncan
Thomas Sachau posted on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:29:25 +0200 as excerpted: > Michael Haubenwallner schrieb: >> Isn't the intention of multilib to have a new (64bit) system be >> compatible with the corresponding old (32bit) system? >> >> Please comment, thank you! >> /haubi/ > > If you have a 64bit s

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: multilib and the compatibility to singlelib

2009-10-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/20/2009 04:06 PM, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: Isn't the intention of multilib to have a new (64bit) system be compatible with the corresponding old (32bit) system? I'm not sure I understand the whole procedure you use to build this app. Why not simply use -m32 when building it? Why b